Sajid Taheri

Sajid Taheri (24 October 1987-20 November 2015) was a member of the Islamic State from Sweden.

Biography
Sajid Taheri was born in Gothenburg, Sweden on 24 October 1987 to a family of Sunni Muslims. His parents Ayman and Fatima immigrated from Iraq during the rule of Saddam Hussein, and they ran a small Middle Eastern food market in the city. Taheri was raised like any regular teenager in Sweden, but he later became a radical Islamist to cope with his problems such as drinking and dealing drugs. In 2015 he entered Syria through Turkey and joined the Islamic State there, and he fought against the Syrian Arab Republic. On 20 November 2015 he was among the 600 militants killed by the Russian Navy's cruise missile strikes in Syria in retribution for the November 2015 Paris attacks.